Unassigned, the future calls for submissions

An open letter…

The world is in a spin and with what the medias withhold, one can only
imagine the silenced and vital issues. After being trashed, punked, desecrated,
softporned by all possible extent of explicit reality, what next?

BETTER. Imagine!

Gore, cynicism, crushing horrors are elevated and sprinkled over the
growing existential thundering pain we feel. Attempts to disconnect us
from acknowledging our greatest fears (fears of oblivion, death and darkness)
are looming over all of us relentlessly 24 hours a day.

Be it real or virtual blood too much is being shed shrouding our lives
in bending despair of the heart and soul. No one is spared – no
one is left untouched… so?

Equally in danger is the pressure to surrender our imagination. The
rulers who are masters at casting threatening shadows over what defines
our core humanity, our right to dignity and self-respect… need
to be reminded that we exist, and ultimately, be determined to kick them
out of their rampaging strategies.

There is a cosmic genocide happening, since our souls are fed day in
day out, news of these megalomaniac conglomerates, who, under the guise
of economic activities, are plundering and destroying the very fabric
by which each and everyone is so tenuously surviving.

So, what is it going to take to retake and reinitialize the right path?
How to give back flavor to life?

Call on the dreamers!

WE, the dreamers of the world, who dwell in the unknown, are capable
to mount, dismount and surmount the formidable effect of this contra-communication
which has only one message: we are all undone by the rule of greed.

Now, more than ever this world needs LOVE. Love sweet love.

If you are ready to leave because the above is too syrupy to your taste.
If you have long ago shrugged away above as being unreachable. If the
emotions attached to values such as goodness, human greatness and positive
change are gone… Then fine, these words are for you.

Let’s set aside for a moment the cold survival of the fittest
theory and allow childlike aspirations for better a world take over.
This land of untouched beauty filled with superseding qualities, is just
within your heart reach.

Yes, it does start by admitting the horrifying condition our world has
degraded to. Yes, you need to state your refusal that it continues so,
unchallenged. Yes, these are first steps toward joining others who are
reinventing what tomorrow is. What tomorrow can be.

Although it seems that money is the sole power lever. Although it seems
that without it nothing can be accomplished. Although… etc… These
are lies.

Historically, all that has come to better our lives is owed to men and
women who have refused the social proposal du temps and went on to give
their life (read time) to make sure it changed.

Whatever the context – those who dreamed bigger – those
who dreamed better – those who made their dreams a reality were
very much reacting to realities they thought unacceptable. Just as we
are today. Just like the ones we deal with today: our contemporary social
proposal is simply unacceptable.

Dreamers are very fragile and sensitive to being bullied. Dreamers also
own what cannot be bought or taken away from them: their imagination,
their talent, their aspirations.

Revive your clear bold voice. Shape the world with a new vision. Let
it be known that you are dreaming a better future. Fear of failure marks
the end of creativity. I dare you! Show it! Think it! Draw it! Write
it! Animate it! Print it! Share it! Publish it!

Let’s give this world the almost impossible: our dreams!

Now imagine what can happen if the world citizens teamed up together in a day to day agenda?

Bibliography

This manifesto was written especially and included in the first print
version of Plugzine
#1 Where to start? a concept and designs publication on
contemporary visual culture, that includes work by ParisSydneyTokyo,
DHKY, Insect, Saiman Chow, Netdiver, Delaware, Hort, Kam Tang,
Friends with You, Hausgrafik, :Phunk, Genevieve Gauckler, Jason Siu,
Dimension 7, Toca Me, Scott Rench and Ou Ning.

Launched during GET IT
LOUDER / visual noise made by young talented designers and artists
around the globe. The exhibition is conceived as a platform for showcasing
their creativity and personal thoughts, in order to explore their sources
of inspirations in their daily lives. It also tends to examine graphic
art/design as lifestyles, living attitudes, and as an integral part of
urban culture.

Get It Louder is the first art/design exhibition and event
of its kind held in mainland China / 2005